Choosing Hosting for a Static Website

Static websites are built ahead of time and served as files. That changes the buying decision: uptime, global edge delivery, build reliability, cache behavior, and deployment workflow matter more than server runtime features.

For a content-heavy site, start with these questions:

• Does the host produce stable, cacheable URLs for every page?
• Can builds run automatically from GitHub?
• Are redirects, headers, 404 pages, and custom domains easy to manage?
• Does the platform avoid charging for backend capacity you do not need?

For websitemakers.com, Azure Static Web Apps is a strong first deployment target because it can host the generated Astro output directly and keep the architecture backend-free.